“ I think we’re going to have to either give up baseball or give up the hypocrisy and the phoniness and pretending that steroids are an evil thing…. They are the march of science and modern life. It’s crazy to imagine that athletes, of all people, are going to refrain from using whatever science makes possible for them to enhance their performance. „
Zev Chafets, author of Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame
06/11/2009
, in 05/28/2009
“ The nationwide war on steroids by two San Francisco BALCO prosecutors and one former IRS agent has always been about personal advancement. These federal officials realized that by targeting a few baseball players and track stars for taking steroids they could make names for themselves. The irony is that thousands of American police officers are major steroid users. Yes, there has been too much ado about steroids. I’ve been writing for years about the subject for Yahoo Sports and Playboy because readers are intrigued. But the deeper story is that steroids are prevalent throughout society. Prosecutors using athletes as scapegoats are simply playing the celebrity gristmill. „
Jonathan Littman commenting on Freakonomics blog article
01/28/2009
“ It’s not just a drug that can be taken lightly. It’s something that we still consider extremely dangerous to the public and we’re going to investigate it to its fullest, just as if it were heroin, cocaine or marijuana. „
DEA Special Agent Violet Szeleczky speaking about the dangers of steroids during the sentencing of Kenneth Hebert and Leticia Zamora as part of Operation Raw Deal. ”Pearland couple to be sentenced for operating major steroid pill mill,” January 27, 2009.
12/01/2008
“ As used by most people, including athletes, the adverse effects of anabolic steroids appear to be minimal. They do not cause cancer, they do not cause kidney failure, they do not cause much of anything except an increase in lean muscle mass. „
Dr. Mauro di Pasquale, anabolic steroid expert in “What’s So Bad About Performance Enhancement?” In LA Weekly on December 20, 2007.
10/24/2008
“ I’ve never seen any sign of this so-called ‘roid rage in any other baseball players, and I’ve never felt anything like that affecting me. Does using steroids ever alter your moods? I’m sure in some ways it can, yes. Any chemical, if used incorrectly, can alter your mood. Then again, a lot of things can do that. Spending too much time in traffic can do that. Or eating too much of one food. But people love their stereotypes, and the steroid-crazed athlete is one that’s been spread by the media for years. „
Jose Canseco discusses the proper use of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big (page 259-260)
10/24/2008
“ Carefully controlling the amounts of steroids you take, administering them at the proper time - that’s the way to make them work for you, without risking your health. Like most chemicals that can help you, steroids would be dangerous if used in too large a quantity. Just consider the example of Botox, whose popularity has now spread from Hollywood. As most people know, Botox is used to paralyze muscles to stop the aging process in the face. But Botox is also poisonous - it’s a form of botulism, the poison, which can kill you. The key is knowing how to use it without taking undue risks. That’s exactly the way to think of steroids: Sure, they can be deadly if used in ridiculously large amounts, the way some out-of-control weight-lifters do. But if you’re smart, and careful, and know what you’re doing, you can use them to reach your true potential. „
Jose Canseco discusses the proper use of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big (page 224-225)
10/24/2008
“ I believe every steroid out there can be used safely and beneficially - it’s all a question of dosage. Some steroids you cycle off and on, depending on the dose. You just have to make sure you give your liver enough time to filter them out. There are other steroids that have very low toxicity levels. Those can be taken continuously by most healthy people. It just depends. Growth hormone? You can use that all year round. Same thing with your Equipoise, your Winstrols, your Decas - taken properly, those are fine all year round. But something like Anadrol, and some high dosages of testosterone - those have to be moderated, taken more selectively. This is all important because when ballplayers talk about steroids, they really mean a combination of steroids and growth hormone, and that requires some serious planning if you don’t want to get yourself in trouble. „
Jose Canseco discusses the safety of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big (page 6)
10/24/2008
“ Jose Canseco discusses the health benefits of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
Yes, you heard me right: Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier. Certain steroids, used in proper combinations, can cure certain diseases. Steroids will give you a better quality of life and also drastically slow down the aging process.
If people learn how to use steroids and growth hormone properly, especially as they get older - sixty, seventy, eighty years old - their way of living will change completely. If you start young enough, when you are in your twenties, thirties, and forties, and use steroids properly, you can probably slow the aging process by fifteen or twenty years. I’m forty years old, but I look much younger - and I can still do everything the way I could when I was twenty-five.
„Jose Canseco discusses the health benefits of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
(page 3)
10/24/2008
“ Jose Canseco discusses the future of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
We’re talking about the future here. I have no doubt whatsoever that intelligent, informed use of steroids, combined with human growth hormone, will one day be so accepted that everybody will be doing it. Steroid use will be more common than Botox is now. Every baseball player and pro athlete will be using at least low levels of steroids. As a result, baseball and other sports will be more exciting and entertaining. Human life will be improved, too. We will live longer and better. And maybe we’ll love longer and better, too.
We will be able to look good and have strong, fit bodies well into our sixties and beyond. It’s called evolution, and their is no stopping it. All these people crying about steroids in baseball now will look as foolish in a few years as the people who said John F. Kennedy was crazy to say the United States would put a man on the moon. People who see the future earlier than others are always feared and misunderstood.
„Jose Canseco discusses the future of anabolic steroids in Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
08/29/2008
“ Unlike many other drugs, kids don’t admit it because it’s not cool to be on steroids, not to mention the fact that it makes you paranoid. „
Linn Goldberg, professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and founder of ATLAS and ATHENA anti-steroid education programs.
08/26/2008
“ Tired of the ridiculous steroids hearings in Congress? Thank Biden, who led the effort to make steroids a Schedule 3 drug, and has been among the blowhardiest of the blowhards when it comes to sports and performance enhancing drugs. „
Radley Balko, a senior editor for Reason magazine, on Democratic Presidential nominee Barrack Obama’s choice of Senator Joseph Biden as VP candidate posted on The Agitator blog
06/23/2008
“ George Carlin, writing about anabolic steroids in his best-selling book, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops
It annoys me when people complain about athletes taking steroids to improve athletic performance. It’s a phony argument, because over the years every single piece of sports equipment used by athletes has been improved many times over. Golf balls and clubs; tennis balls, racquets; baseball gloves and bats; football pads and helmets and so on through every sport. Each time technology has found a way to improve equipment it has done so. So why shouldn’t a person treat his body the same way? In the context of sports, the body is nothing more than one more piece of equipment, anyway. So why not improve it with new technology? Athletes use weights, why shouldn’t they use chemicals?
Consider the Greek Phidippides, a professional runner who, in 490 B.C., ran from Athens to Sparta and back (280 miles) to ask the Spartans for help against the Persians in an upcoming battle that threatened Athens. Don’t you think his generals would have been happy to give him amphetamines if they had been available? And a nice pair of New Balance high-performance running shoes while they were at it? Grow up, purists. The body is not a sacred vessel, it’s a tool.
„George Carlin, writing about anabolic steroids in his best-selling book, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops
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06/13/2008
“ Amazingly, there has been no credible study of the long-term health effects of anabolic steroid use. „
Charles E. Yesalis, professor of health and human development at Penn State University in (“‘Roid Warrior,” August 15, 2002)
06/13/2008
“ You know, if my son came home and said, Dad, I’m either going to start smoking or I’m going to get on steroids,’ I’d have to say I would hope he would choose steroids. „
Charles E. Yesalis, professor of health and human development at Penn State University in (“‘Roid Warrior,” August 15, 2002)
05/13/2008
“ Doping is rampant and beating the testers is like taking candy from a baby. The system is inept. There is a level playing field – it’s just not the one people want. „
